Comments on: Chacham R’ Ovadia Speaks Out on Emanuel Beis Yaakov

By: RG

RG — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:26:24 +0000

There are two other girls schools in Emanuel in addition to the embattled Beis Yaakovs.

The Chabad School, under the ministry of education, and the Beit Rachel and Leah, under the Mayan – Shas Sephardic school network.

By: RG

RG — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:42:20 +0000

I live in Emanuel.

My daughters attended the Beis Yaakov of Emanuel.

They learned the gamut of Jewish law, both Askenazi and Sephardic traditions.

There are only women teachers in the Beis Yaakov school here. I do not know what the Rav means by, “if a Sephardi rav would come to the Emanuel School, he would be expelled.” (If he really stated that).

There is no Rav in the school. It is a women-run school.

I even had a challenge to pose to the school once, and I went to the town Rabbi for support. He said, “Rabbanit Stern is in charge there, not me.”

The woman vice principal of the Beis Yaakov Emanuel is Sephardic. There are of course excellent Sephardic women teachers in the Beis Yaakov, and there are excellent Sephardic men teachers in the Chassidic boys school that my son’s attend.

By: gabs911

gabs911 — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:55:11 +0000

this lighting issue is very old. Many sepharadim do not hold like Hacham Ovadia Yossef. For example the ben ish hai and kaf hayayim and the minhag in morocco was to light then bless. May Hacham Ovadia Yossef live to 120.

By: charliehall

charliehall — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:14:54 +0000

Chacham Ovadiah has been stating his position on candlelighting for a long time; this is not new.

By: chushhareyach

chushhareyach — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:03:01 +0000

“…Sephardi girls in a Beis Yaakov are taught incorrectly, to first make a bracha and then light, when Beis Yosef says to make a bracha and then light.”

I’m assuming one should be in the reverse order